ADA CAMBRIDGE’S NOVELS.
Each, 12mo, cloth, $1.00; paper, 50 cents.
Path and Goal.
This latest book shows the constant human interest which characterizes the work of this sympathetic and charming writer. There is an entertaining plot, and the backgrounds of the varying scenes of action are sketched most vividly.
Materfamilias.
“The story is fragrant with the breath of farms, the aroma of the salt sea, and the even sweeter essence that exhales from the homely virtues, practiced amid simple surroundings, where family ties are strong, and where love, loyal and true, reigns as queen.”—Philadelphia Item.
A Humble Enterprise.
“A restful, sympathetic, domestic story, full of tender pathos, excellent character drawing, and genuine, lovable human nature—a story to be read, not once, but again and again.”—London Daily Mail.
Fidelis.
“The original flavor of Ada Cambridge is not lost but enriched by being ingrafted on a sturdy stock. Her pictures of Australia and of rural England are as attractive as ever, her story better than ever.”—New York Evening Post.
My Guardian.
“A story which will, from first to last, enlist the sympathies of the reader by its simplicity of style and fresh, genuine feeling.... The author is au fait at the delineation of character.”—Boston Transcript.
The Three Miss Kings.
“An exceedingly strong novel. It is an Australian story, teeming with a certain calmness of emotional power that finds expression in a continual outflow of living thought and feeling.”—Boston Times.
Not All in Vain.
“A worthy companion to the best of the author’s former efforts, and in some respects superior to any of them.”—Detroit Free Press.
A Marriage Ceremony.
“Highly original in conception, its action graceful though rapid, and its characters sparkling with that life and sprightliness that have made their author rank as a peer of delineators.”—Baltimore American.
A Little Minx.
“A thoroughly charming novel, which is just the finest bit of work its author has yet accomplished.”—Baltimore American.
BOOKS BY ALLEN RAINE.
Each, 12mo, cloth, $1.00; paper, 50 cents.
Garthowen: A Welsh Idyl.
“Wales has long waited for her novelist, but he seems to have come at last in the person of Mr. Allen Raine, who has at once proved himself a worthy interpreter and exponent of the romantic spirit of his country.”—London Daily Mail.
By Berwen Banks.
“Mr. Raine enters into the lives and traditions of the people, and herein lies the charm of his stories.”—Chicago Tribune.
“Interesting from the beginning, and grows more so as it proceeds.”—San Francisco Bulletin.
“It has the same grace of style, strength of description, and dainty sweetness of its predecessors.”—Boston Saturday Evening Gazette.
Torn Sails.
“It is a little idyl of humble life and enduring love, laid bare before us, very real and pure, which in its telling shows us some strong points of Welsh character—the pride, the hasty temper, the quick dying out of wrath.... We call this a well-written story, interesting alike through its romance and its glimpses into another life than ours.”—Detroit Free Press.
“Allen Raine’s work is in the right direction and worthy of all honor.”—Boston Budget.
Mifanwy: A Welsh Singer.
“Simple in all its situations, the story is worked up in that touching and quaint strain which never grows wearisome no matter how often the lights and shadows of love are introduced. It rings true, and does not tax the imagination.”—Boston Herald.
“One of the most charming tales that has come to us of late.”—Brooklyn Eagle.
BOOKS BY J. A. ALTSHELER.
In Circling Camps.
A Romance of the American Civil War. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
“Mr. Altsheler has an enviable reputation. His method is that of Fenimore Cooper.... In 'In Circling Camps’ he tells a good, strong, human story for its own sake, and not for the sake of showing off his talent as a literary story-teller. He gives us some great battle pieces, notably Shiloh and Gettysburg. His admiration of the nobler qualities of 'old friends turned foes’ is so hearty and so sincerely dramatic that we love and pity the terrible valor of both.”—Richard Henry Stoddard, in the New York Mail and Express.
“The author seeks to interpret some of the situations of the civil war, and read to us out of the well-known records the story of personal bravery, the drama of personal history, and the old story of love which went on behind the grim scenes of war.”—Philadelphia Call.
A Herald of the West.
An American Story of 1811-1815. 12mo. Cloth, $ 1.50.
“A portion of our history that has not before been successfully embodied in fiction.... Extremely well written, condensed, vivid, picturesque, and there is continual action.... A rattling good story, and unrivaled in fiction for its presentation of the American feeling toward England during our second conflict.”—Boston Herald.
A Soldier of Manhattan.
And his Adventures at Ticonderoga and Quebec. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00; paper, 50 cents.
“The story is told in such a simple, direct way that it holds the reader’s interest to the end, and gives a most accurate picture of the times.”—Boston Transcript.
“Graphic and intensely interesting.... The book may be warmly commended as a good specimen of the fiction that makes history real and living.”—San Francisco Chronicle.
The Sun of Saratoga.
A Romance of Burgoyne’s Surrender. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00; paper, 50 cents.
“Taken altogether, 'The Sun of Saratoga’ is the best historical novel of American origin that has been written for years, if not, indeed, in a fresh, simple, unpretending, unlabored, manly way, that we have ever read.”—New York Mail and Express.
“A sprightly and spirited romance gracefully written in a crisp, fresh style that is simply delightful to read.”—Philadelphia Press.
“AN EPIC OF THE WEST.”
The Girl at the Halfway House.
A Romance of the Plains. By E. Hough, author of “The Story of the Cowboy.” 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
The author of “The Girl at the Halfway House,” Mr. E. Hough, gained general recognition by his remarkable book, “The Story of the Cowboy,” published by D. Appleton and Company in this country, and also published in England.
“The Girl at the Halfway House” has been called an American epic by critics who have read the manuscript. The author illustrates the strange life of the great westward movement which became so marked in this country after the civil war. A dramatic picture of a battlefield, which has been compared to scenes in “The Red Badge of Courage,” opens the story. After this “Day of War,” in which the hero and heroine first meet, there comes “The Day of the Buffalo.” The reader follows the course of the hero and his friend, a picturesque old army veteran, to the frontier, then found on the Western plains. The author, than whom no one can speak with fuller knowledge, pictures the cowboy on his native range, the wild life of the buffalo hunters, the coming of the white-topped emigrant wagons, and the strange days of the early land booms. Into this new world comes the heroine, whose family finally settles near at hand, illustrating the curious phases of the formation of a prairie home. The third part of the story, called “The Day of the Cattle,” sketches the wild days when the range cattle covered the plains and the cowboys owned the towns. The fourth part of the story is called “The Day of the Plow,” and in this we find that the buffalo has passed from the adopted country of hero and heroine, and the era of towns and land booms has begun.
Nothing has been written on the opening of the West to excel this romance in epic quality, and its historic interest, as well as its freshness, vividness, and absorbing interest, should appeal to every American reader.
A NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE.
Betsy Ross.
A Romance of the Flag. By Chauncey C. Hotchkiss, author of “In Defiance of the King,” etc. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
“Betsy Ross” is a historical romance based upon the story of the maker of the first official American flag. Mrs. Ross was a charming young widow of but little more than twenty-three when she was commissioned to make the flag from a design submitted to her by Washington. Her husband had been killed by an accident at the Philadelphia arsenal within a few months after his marriage.
The romance which the author has woven around the origin of our flag will quicken the pulse of every reader by the wealth of striking characters and dramatic incidents, and the absorbing interest of the plot. History has furnished a motive which has been curiously neglected in fiction, and the picturesque figures of the time, sea-rangers and Quakers, redcoats and Continental soldiers, and even Washington himself, have to do with the development of a strange and thrilling story wherein Betsy Ross takes the leading part. The ancient tavern, the home of the Philadelphia merchant, the flag-maker’s little shop, and the quaint and charming life of the time, are shown as the background of a series of swift incidents which hold the reader’s attention. “Betsy Ross” is a book to be read, and the reader will recommend it.
The Betsy Ross of history was a singularly bright and winsome woman, and intensely patriotic. Mr. Hotchkiss’s story has been confined to the romantic days of her early womanhood. The house in which the flag was completed, and in and about which most of the action of the novel takes place, still stands on Arch Street, Philadelphia, and the attempt to preserve it as one of the shrines connected with American history is meeting with deserved success. Mrs. Ross (afterward Mrs. Claypoole) died at the great age of ninety-three, and her remains lie in Mount Moriah Cemetery.